Example sentences of "[noun pl] had any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Far Eastern bank interviewed took an entirely different line ; they always worked with the large international firms , claiming that neither they nor candidates had any confidence in the smaller firms .
2 If the lads had any brains th the touts used to say yearlings , they , in the yard got any , yes , get the markings for us , you see .
3 But if her words had any effect on him , he had n't revealed it ; instead he had continued to avoid her glance , riding at her side with his features frozen in the same expressionless mask .
4 None of the Lunn Poly or Thomas Cook branches had any signs informing customers of their links with tour operators .
5 None of the Lunn Poly or Thomas Cook branches had any signs informing customers of their links with tour operators .
6 Neither she nor the grandchildren had any knowledge of training ponies so that would have meant further outlay for someone to break them in and this justifiably , is not cheap .
7 If the Capellan directors had any idea , they never said .
8 I 'd swear that none of those places had any connection with hydrogen bombs . ’
9 Who time should go faster the closer you were to a clock , they did n't know , and none of the castle 's waiters and attendants had any explanation either .
10 This stated objective was often at variance with the reality of the administration of the territory , and it was not clear whether the individuals had any basis for a claim for performance of the treaty in either an international or domestic forum .
11 The confidential document asked soldiers to state whether they or members of their families had any links with a wide range of illegal and political organisations .
12 She 'd often wondered about the Holy Ghost , and now wondered further if Mr Dickens 's stories had any connections with Him .
13 This meant they denied that the allegations had any foundation at all .
14 Most respondents ( 76% ) relied on their own medical adviser to agree the protocols for purposes of payment , but only 49% of the people making these decisions had any expertise in asthma care ; 15% relied on individuals who were not trained in medicine or nursing .
15 It is doubtful , however , whether these filmmaking pioneers had any sense at all of the new invention 's potential significance .
16 It was impossible to say that the order made by the justices had any foundation in law and they had erred in principle in making it ; MacDougall v. Knight [ 1889 ] A.C. 194 , Scott v. Scott [ 1913 ] A.C.417 , Att. -Gen. v. Leveller Magazine Ltd .
17 Held , dismissing the appeal , the issue was whether , on June 13 , the justices had any jurisdiction to set aside the convictions recorded on May 16 .
18 As Fitzgerald said in This Side of Paradise , " None of the Victorian mothers had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to being kissed . "
19 If the players had any regret they would forgo their wages until they earned them .
20 Yes yes if members had any complaints about their work I would report it up at the head office and up up at the the branch office in Park .
21 Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress .
22 Only a young Jewish girl , her betrothed husband , a handful of shepherds , and a few wise men had any inkling who had arrived .
23 If men had any hand in her movements , what I said falls to the ground , for then all is plain .
24 You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure .
25 efforts to prise Richard away from all or part of Aquitaine , but neither threats nor blandishments had any effect .
26 The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land .
27 They consider , sometimes in fairly abstract terms , the kinds of policies which Labour might have adopted , without asking whether such policies had any chance of securing parliamentary support .
28 All three mutations result in decreased CytR regulation with the mutation at -72 exhibiting the largest effect and , once again , neither of the mutations had any effect on cAMP-CRP activation of deoP2 transcription ( Table I ) .
29 The local cadres recognised their protest as legal and an investigation team was sent to the college to see if their complaints had any substance .
30 For the most part , however , parents seemed pathetically grateful that their wretched boys had any job to go to .
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